Round 16: Newcastle Knights vs Canterbury Bulldogs

What is your prediction for this game ??

  • Knights 13+

    Votes: 16 57.1%

  • Knights 1-12

    Votes: 10 35.7%

  • Draw

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Bulldogs 1-12

    Votes: 2 7.1%

  • Bulldogs 13+

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    28
  • Poll closed .
Benji Marshall's brother and Wally Lewis' nephew in the halves sounds more impressive than it will probably look.
 
rhugh89 said:
We got Perenara as Ref, God help us

We have a great record under him too, 6 wins in 5 years

Played - 22
Won - 6
Lost - 16
Win Rate - 27.3%
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Those stats are because we had a very ordinary side let's be honest, we had a poor record no matter who refereed, in fact 6 out of 16 might actually have been good over the last six years, keep it in perspective please
 
I personally hate statistics that are aimed at poor poor old us, we have been s**t for five years and lost most games whether that be refs are quality of players, stop looking for excuses before the kick off, same as Bulldogs are so bad we must win, give the opposition credit and your win is more credible, lose and you got beat by the worst, it all still comes to who plays best on the day, hopefully us
 
Frank McWilliams said:
Those stats are because we had a very ordinary side let's be honest, we had a poor record no matter who refereed, in fact 6 out of 16 might actually have been good over the last six years, keep it in perspective please
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It was 6 wins from 22 not 16 and that record streches from 2013-2018

If you narrow it down to 2013-2015 prior to the wooden spoons it doesn't get much better, The win rate goes up to 40%

Despite us being average for a while we still have win rates of 50% or more under Gavin Badger, Chris Butler, Steve Chiddy, Peter Gough and Ziggy Przeklasa of the current refs

Perenara is a shocker regardless of stats
 
Most refs try to boot home the favourites these days - Perenara more than most.
We'll probably start favourites this week, so he might even favour us for a change.
 
Frank McWilliams said:
I personally hate statistics that are aimed at poor poor old us, we have been s**t for five years and lost most games whether that be refs are quality of players, stop looking for excuses before the kick off
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I wasn't looking for excuses before kickoff and I didn't post them out of pity for the Knights

I have posted thousand's of stats over the years on here and I post them because I find them interesting and so do others

If you don't like them then ignore them
 
rhugh89 said:
It was 6 wins from 22 not 16 and that record streches from 2013-2018

If you narrow it down to 2013-2015 prior to the wooden spoons it doesn't get much better, The win rate goes up to 40%

Despite us being average for a while we still have win rates of 50% or more under Gavin Badger, Chris Butler, Steve Chiddy, Peter Gough and Ziggy Przeklasa of the current refs

Perenara is a shocker regardless of stats
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If you were on the opposite side for those games refereed by Badger, Butler Chiddy, Gough and Pzeklasa you might have the direct opposite opinion, all in the eye of the believer or non believer, sorry but wins/losses is an easy cop out to blame someone else when it could, again could, be the better teams won due to playing fair. Don't get me wrong, love the Knights just not into making excuses.
 
Frank McWilliams said:
If you were on the opposite side for those games refereed by Badger, Butler Chiddy, Gough and Pzeklasa you might have the direct opposite opinion, all in the eye of the believer or non believer, sorry but wins/losses is an easy cop out to blame someone else when it could, again could, be the better teams won due to playing fair. Don't get me wrong, love the Knights just not into making excuses.
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I wasn't making excuses mate, It would be stupid of me to make excuses before the game has even kicked off

Perenara may have a great game, He may not

I was simply pointing out that we don't have a good record under him and I think regardless of which game he refs every week he is poor
 
Although I like the way King tackles I was hoping he would step up this season but I don't think he has atleast not enough , That leaves us with 2 1st grade Props Ese,ese and Lillyman and Lillyman is on his last legs …
Cant see us beating anyone with essentialy 1 , 1st grade standard prop in the side were just too light on in that dept to worry any team in the comp … Hopefully by next season we can buy at least 2 big nasty Props because we are going to need them .
You cant win games if your getting steamrolled up the middle .
 
Luckily the dogs only have klemmer and that work horse plodder Tolman.

Hammer the edges i say.

Barnett and Fitzgibbon to make 150m each plus ese with 100-150m with Guerra at he's normal standard and we should win easy.
 
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